Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 626 Chapter 625 Life is a constant dislocation

At this time, Fang Minghua, Stephen Chow and others had not yet arrived at the dining hall.

As soon as I entered the gate of Yan University, students surrounded me and asked for my autograph.

Fortunately, with the protection of the school security staff, the group walked and stopped many times and finally reached their destination - the dining hall.

The large dining hall of Yenching University is what later became the Centenary Memorial Lecture Hall. However, it was 93 and the memorial lecture hall had not yet been built.

But this place is not just used for eating. Since the 1950s and 1960s, the "Big Dining Hall" has been one of the places for showing movies on the Yenching University campus.

When Fang Minghua and his team arrived, they saw that the dining room was packed with audiences. Of course, not all of them were students. There were also reporters and film critics invited by the roadshow team, such as Tang Jiaren, editor-in-chief of Popular Cinema.

According to the arrangement of the premiere, the host first briefly described the plot of the film, and then entered the screening session. The plots such as answering reporters' questions and interacting with the audience were put after the film ended.

Fang Minghua and the film's creative team watched the first part of "A Chinese Odyssey" - "Pancake Box" with the audience.

He watched it carefully, recalling the movie that was shown in history in his mind.

The plot direction and story are basically the same. After all, it is the same script, the same director and the same leading actor. Only some plot details are slightly different.

In order to reproduce the classic in his mind, although this time it had nothing to do with Xiying, Fang Minghua still asked the famous composer Zhao Jiping to compose the famous theme song - "Reed Marsh" for "A Chinese Odyssey".

Of course this time, Zhao Jiping still looked down on the script and still did not sign his name on the script. He even threatened - if it wasn't for his friend's face, he would never write a song for this crappy script!

But all this is in the past. When the familiar flute music sounded, Fang Minghua felt inexplicably intimate.

The two parts were shown consecutively, with laughter from the audience coming from time to time. After the movie was over, the entire venue suddenly fell silent, but Fang Minghua could still vaguely hear someone sobbing softly.

The lights are bright.

There was warm applause in the venue.

Next, the creative team stood together at the front desk and began to talk about their own thoughts and experiences, as well as some interesting things they encountered during the filming process.

Of course, Fang Minghua was no exception. He talked about his script creation process, and his motivation mainly came from the reinterpretation and humorous treatment of the classic work "Journey to the West".

"Ten years ago, I wrote a book called 'The Legend of Wukong', which was also true,"

Next is the session for reporters to ask questions and interact with the audience.

The reporters were all invited by the roadshow team, so they naturally wouldn't ask any overly sharp questions, but as students of Yanda University, they wouldn't be so polite.

As the chosen ones among the chosen ones, they have their pride.

How about Stephen Chow? How about Fang Minghua?
If you don't like it, you can still criticize it to its face!

Just at the beginning, a thin boy wearing glasses raised his hand high, and after getting the host's permission, he immediately ran onto the makeshift stage.

Holding the microphone, he said directly to Fang Minghua: "Minghua, I like literary works, whether novels, essays or even scripts, but forgive me for being frank. After watching the movie today, regardless of the actors' acting skills, I was very disappointed with the script alone."

As soon as the boy said this, the audience began to whisper.

After watching this movie, of course there are parts I like and parts I don’t like.

The main thing I don't like is the plot of this movie, which is a bit brain-burning and hard to understand.

But as the author of the script, Fang Minghua, is a famous writer in China after all, it still takes a certain amount of courage to criticize him to his face.

"Please speak." Fang Minghua had a faint smile on his face.

"Teacher Minghua, I really can't understand how a writer who won the Mao Dun Literature Prize could write such a work! The frivolous language and disordered structure are simply incomprehensible! Is this how you desecrate Journey to the West, one of the four great masterpieces of China?! I'm not just talking about the script of A Chinese Odyssey, but also the one you wrote ten years ago, The Legend of Wukong!"

After the boy finished speaking, the people on the stage looked at each other in confusion, and there was an uproar below the stage.

Zhang Xu, who was sitting in the middle watching a movie with his girlfriend, suddenly laughed out loud.

Cool!
It feels so good to curse!
That's exactly what he wanted to say.

Originally, he wanted to go up and question him, but then he thought that his girlfriend was a loyal reader of Fang Minghua. It didn't matter if he offended Fang Minghua, but it would be a big trouble if he annoyed his girlfriend!

Just bear with it.
Now someone is venting his anger for him, he is so happy!

Zhang Xu was so happy.
"Zhang Xu, what are you laughing at?!" Zhang Xu turned his head and saw Liang Ling staring at him with an unhappy face. "No, nothing, it's just that the movie is good." Zhang Xu hurriedly evaded the question.

"Hmph, I know. You're happy to see Teacher Minghua being criticized, right?" the girlfriend said angrily.

"No, no, absolutely not!" Zhang Xu firmly denied.

"Let me tell you, that classmate is wrong! He didn't understand the movie at all, he's just talking nonsense!"

Oops
Do you understand?

What did you understand?

But Zhang Xu definitely couldn't say these words to complain about his girlfriend.

"I think so too. He didn't understand. Don't worry. Let's listen to how Teacher Minghua explains it," said Zhang Xu.

The young couple whispering in the audience naturally did not affect what was happening on the stage.

After the boy finished speaking, everyone looked at how Fang Minghua would explain.

Fang Minghua was certainly prepared for the current situation.

He wrote the script for "A Chinese Odyssey" and promised his wife to come to the road show. He had anticipated that this day would come.

However, the boy in front of me seemed a little aggressive in his words?
Fang Minghua was about to speak when she heard a girl in the audience shout, "Student, you don't understand this movie at all!"

Fang Minghua looked up and saw a pretty girl with a ponytail. Perhaps she was a little excited, her face was flushed.

It was Zhang Xu’s girlfriend, Liang Ling.

"Girl, what do you think the boy did wrong?" The host took the opportunity to draw everyone's attention to the girl: "Would you please come up and speak? Students next to you, please make way and let this student come over."

So Zhang Xu watched his girlfriend excitedly running towards the stage.

When Liang Ling came on stage, the host smiled and said: "Student, can you briefly introduce yourself?"

Liang Ling was not afraid of the stage. She picked up the microphone and said, "Teacher Minghua, Mr. Zhou, the main creators of "A Chinese Odyssey" and all the students, hello. My name is Liang Ling, and I am a student of the History Department in 90. I think this movie is very well made, whether it is the plot, the lines, or the performance of the actors. In particular, I personally think that the plot and lines are very well written and classic!"

There was a burst of boos from the audience.

Damn, this guy is obviously a loyal reader of Fang Minghua.

Isn't this the way to flatter someone?
Liang Ling seemed very serious: "When watching this movie, please don't focus on those nonsensical words. I think it actually tells a sad love story through these happy words."

"Later, I suddenly realized that it was not a pure love story, but actually a story about life!"

"Oh, why do you say that?" The host played the role of the supporting actor very promptly.

"Life is a constant dislocation! Look at the life of Zhizunbao: the whole story is full of dislocations -

When he was Zhizunbao, he didn't have the magic power to save his wife;

When Zixia loved him, he only loved Bai Jingjing, his wife 500 years later;

When he began to love Zixia, she had already left him and was trapped by the Bull Demon King;
Only when he regained his magic power and was able to save Zixia, he had no illusions. He loved her and she loved him, but they had lost the right to love each other. "

"Actually, this is life." This is life, this is the cruelty of life, and it is everywhere in real life.

You love someone, but he doesn't love you; someone loves you, but you don't love him.

When you and he love each other at the same time, you can't help but hurt each other.

The emotions in the world flow in a misplaced manner between love, family affection and friendship.

Sometimes, I can't help but fantasize, hoping that time can go back and everything can be revised.

However, time cannot be turned back. Even if it could be turned back, facing the same people and the same place, it would still be like Zhizunbao, where all the endings were changed just because of Zixia's tear, and there would be no way back to the past. "

On the stage, Liang Ling spoke eloquently, while the audience was silent.

(End of this chapter)